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2019-08-11
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 4 – August 11, 2019 194 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 223 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data

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Business 12 stories

  1. Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data

  2. Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest

  3. NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors

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  1. Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007

  2. FedEx Ends Ground-Delivery Deal with Amazon

  3. We shouldn’t take peer review as the ‘gold standard’

  4. Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens

Sports 9 stories

  1. Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day

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  1. Wine on Windows 10

  2. Inflated Bond Ratings Helped Spur the Financial Crisis. They’re Back

  3. Coinbase: Responding to Firefox 0-days in the wild

Technology 157 stories

  1. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

  2. All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people

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  1. Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’

  2. Terminating Service for 8Chan

  3. What Does a Coder Do If They Can't Type?

  4. Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut

  5. Hy

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web

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  1. Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me

  2. MoviePass Worked Out Great

  3. Show HN: Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript

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